STILLNESS OF BEING

In March 2022, the contemporary BURN-IN Gallery will take the artists Richard Fischer and Linda Steinthórsdóttir on a journey into the extravagant worlds of nature and culture, inspired by happiness, and will occupy another atypical art space in the heart of Vienna, the traditional Gerngross department stores'.

After last year's photo art exhibition SILENT SCREAM, a veritable colour fascination that thematised endangered plants, BURN-IN founder and curator Sonja Dolzer stages Iceland's dynamic Otherworld in a subtly purist way, fusing Steinthórsdóttir's monochrome classics with Fischer's charismatic floral black-and-white creatures from around the world.

The art salon THE SILENCE OF BEING is an invitation to contemplate silence. A reduction to the beauty of nature - a delightful counterpoint to the constant hustle and bustle or, more generally, to the demanding times.

When the powerful natural forces of glaciers, northern lights, waterfalls and volcanoes superficially coincide with mysterious, exotic, sometimes even dangerous flora from Asia, Oceania and America, magically communicated, the uniqueness, sublimity and beauty of nature and art intuitively open up to the viewer - natural beauty meets art.

With the sensitive works of the internationally active artists, visitors can expect works of absolute excellence that have already been presented in renowned museums.

The great common ground of both artists is based on the pursuit of artistic and intensional uniqueness and the uncompromising willingness to leave comfort zones and tread unexpectedly innovative paths outside the classical ones. The atypical Gerngross art space, with its ground-floor atrium, air space and display on Mariahilfer Strasse, provides the perfect setting for this and impresses with high visitor frequency.

But it is not only the contemplative, the STILLNESS OF BEING that inspires visitors. Rather, the magical interweaving of contemporary art with nature (GreenART) laces the awareness for the beauty of nature and the sensitive handling of it. It creates and sharpens environmental awareness and, optimally, changes behaviour. Meaningfulness initiated by a contemporary exhibition that manifests itself in an ecologically oriented culture. A production from BURN-IN in cooperation with Gerngross.